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University Topic Bans Treat the Mind as Passive
Students shouldn’t be sheltered from controversial ideas
Apr 15
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Sam Weaver
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The Term “State Capitalism” Wrongly Equates Freedom With Dictatorship
Critics of Trump’s economic policies must avoid the trap of calling them “state capitalism”
Apr 8
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Sam Weaver
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Now Online: ‘The Age of Envy’
Ayn Rand’s diagnosis of our culture’s hostility to values
Apr 7
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Ricardo Pinto
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Ayn Rand Comments on Reading the Bible from Outer Space: The Triumph of Science vs. the “Moldy Nonsense” of Religion
A champion of reason critiques the smuggling of religious faith into an achievement of scientific rationality.
Apr 7
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Ben Bayer
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What Studying Authoritarianism Teaches Us About Fighting It
The “new right” isn’t new. The National Conservatives, post-liberals, and MAGA-adjacent factions are fighting a war that started centuries ago
Apr 1
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Elan Journo
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March 2026
The Vice of Nationalism
“Nationalism” is rearing its head again. We should recognize that it conflicts with individual freedom
Mar 31
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Elan Journo
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NASA’s Plan to Impede Space Commercialization
A flourishing space economy requires freedom. NASA’s plan to direct it threatens hard-won progress
Mar 25
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Mike Mazza
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The Dishonesty of ‘Real Socialism Has Never Been Tried’
Only wordplay and fantasy speculation can rationalize the idea that the Soviet Union and other brutal regimes weren’t really socialist
Mar 23
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Ben Bayer
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"Population Bombed!" Challenges Fears of Overpopulation, Climate Change
Paul Ehrlich, environmentalist doomsayer and author of the enormously influential 1968 bestseller The Population Bomb has died at age 93.
Mar 20
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Keith Lockitch
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Ayn Rand’s Dramatization of the Migrant’s Journey to Freedom
Ayn Rand’s fiction repeatedly portrays the story of individuals who leave their homeland seeking refuge from their oppressors
Mar 18
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Ben Bayer
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The Suffering of Moral Saints
"Strangers Drowning" by Larissa MacFarquhar exemplifies a widespread and deeply problematic way of thinking about morality that needs to be challenged…
Mar 16
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Aaron Smith
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Iran is not Venezuela
The Iranian regime’s religious nature has long been the source of its hostility
Mar 13
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Elan Journo
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Ben Bayer
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